Content Dates #

Setting a Content Date in Front Matter #

Add a date key to your front matter to override the default date (file creation) and customize how the file is sorted in a collection.

---
date: 2016-01-01
---

---
date: Last Modified
---

Valid date values:

• Last Modified: automatically resolves to the file’s last modified date
• Created: automatically resolves to the file’s created date (default, this is what is used when date is omitted).
• 2016-01-01 or any other valid YAML date value (leaving off the time assumes midnight in UTC, or 00:00:00Z)
• "2016-01-01" or any other valid UTC string that Luxon’s DateTime.fromISO can parse (see also the Luxon API docs).

If a date key is omitted from the file, the date is assumed to be:

1. If the file name has a YYYY-MM-DD format (anywhere), this date is used.
2. File creation date.